Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:32:08 -0500
Reply-To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Bit o' stopped Rust
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I recently took care of several places like that in a miniature
version of bodywork 101. Instead of an angle grinder I used a dremel
with a grindstone and took the offending places between the slider and
passenger rear wheel arch down to shiny metal. Then I got out my
bodywork stuff and mixed up a tad of body putty and laid it in the low
spots by hand. When it got hard enough (think very cold cheese) I
filed it flush and then in five minutes it was hard enough to sand. I
brushed on primer (hi-build type, thinned for a spray gun but it did
fine with no activator) and sanded that, and then brushed on already
reduced paint left over from a previous bodywork job. Not even a
preval sprayer was involved, the whole thing took about 20 minutes and
I am extremely pleased with the result.
Jim
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> and sorry for the typo's !
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Bit o' Rust
>
>
>> Instructions so simple that even a simple squirrel can do it!
>>
>> Thanks, Scott!
>>
>> And Hector -- thanks also for the pointer to that kool kit!
>>
>> --
>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>> Bend, OR
>> KG6RCR
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/30/2009 4:58 PM Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>>
>>> Rocket's kind of rust spot *perfect* for stopping now, and permanently,
>>> and it's hyper easy to do too.
>>> No kit needed.
>>> 1. clean to bare metal by any means - pick at it with a dental pick,
>>> scrub
>>> it with a small metal brush, etc.
>>>
>>> 2. Spray 'rust stop' on the spot. The stuff that says 'converts rust to
>>> primered metal." Or use brush-on 'rust conerter' liquid from the hardware
>>> store.
>>>
>>> 3. let that cure - for the deluxe treatment, next............... treat
>>> the
>>> spot with self-etching primer paint. If it's too small a spot to spray
>>> with a can, spary some of the paint into the spray can top, then use a
>>> tiny
>>> brush to paint the small spot of treated metal.
>>>
>>> 4. let that paint cure, then touch it up with the correct touch-up paint
>>> in
>>> a small jar, that you get at a automtive paint specialits store, and
>>> using
>>> the paint code that might still be on your van, or get the paint code
>>> online.
>>>
>>> Treated like that, that spot won't even show, and will be rust-free for a
>>> long, long, LONG time.
>>> I do it all the time , it's fun.
>>> Scott
>>> www.turbovans.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <
>>>> camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mellow Yellow was always a SoCal van, with no sign of rust, even under
>>>>> the
>>>>> floor and behind the reefer. We moved here to Bend, Oregon, which is
>>>>> high
>>>>> desert and pretty arid, too, so I'm not expecting Pacific Northwest or
>>>>> East Coast (USA) grade rust, ever.
>>>>>
>>>>> That said, a couple days ago I spotted a ding above the sliding door
>>>>> handle that looks like it wants attention. I could use a tip or two on
>>>>> a
>>>>> way to tidy this up and halt the rust. I don't have a paint booth or
>>>>> sprayer. I do have chewing gum, though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/j.michael.elliott/Vanagon#5319046442995891378
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>>>> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
>>>>> Bend, OR
>>>>> KG6RCR
>>>>>
>>>
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